In the early summer of 1994, I walked into Alice’s Bookshop in North Carlton; a small shop in an old terrace on a straight boulevard that runs north out of Melbourne, Victoria. Being so close to the venerable sandstone of Melbourne University, there’s an old-fashioned gravity about the place.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-24 08:48:13 UTC ]
The author’s picture book helps Indigenous children see themselves in familiar stories. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday) has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The book sees social historian Rubenhold reconstruct the murdered women's lives, sometimes from as little as a single hair, giving voice to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 05:22:32 UTC ]